The former Admirals beat the current Admirals as host Syracuse won 4-2 Friday over Norfolk.

Most of the current Crunch players competed for the Admirals a year ago. In fact, winning goalie Dustin Tokarski and all four goal-scorers for Eastern Conference-leading Syracuse (19-7-1-3) played for Norfolk last season: Mark Barberio, Alex Killorn, Ondrej Palat and Tyler Johnson.

Kyle Palmieri and Sami Vatanen scored for Norfolk (13-14-1-0), which never led. Johnson’s power-play goal with 3:45 left made it 4-2.

The “trade” occurred because Syracuse and Norfolk swapped affiliations after last season, when the Admirals won their first Calder Cup as a Tampa Bay affiliate. Syracuse was Anaheim’s top farm team last season.